Stephen Walton wrote:
zeros() in Numeric3 defaults to typecode='d' while in numarray it defaults to typecode=None, which in practice means 'i' by default. Is this deliberate? Is this desirable? I'd vote for zeros(), ones() and the like to default to 'i' or 'f' rather than 'd' in the interest of space and speed.
For zeros() and ones(), I don't think space and speed are going to be affected by the default typecode. In my use of these functions, I almost always need a specific typecode. If I use the default, it's because I actually need the default typecode. Unfortunately, I almost always want Float and not Int, so all of my code is littered with zeros(shape, Float) I'll bet Travis's code looks the same. I would *love* to be able to spell these things like Float.zeros(shape) UInt8.ones(shape) Complex32.array(other) ... Then we could leave zeros() and ones() defaults as they are for backwards compatibility, and deprecate the functions. -- Robert Kern rkern@ucsd.edu "In the fields of hell where the grass grows high Are the graves of dreams allowed to die." -- Richard Harter